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The Future of Management
4 July 2008
London Business School's "Management Innovation Lab"held its first conference at the end of May, in Half Moon Bay, California. It was a closed session of 30+ leading management academics and free-thinking CEO's, and the MLab is yet to release any official briefing on it. However Simon Caulkin of The Observer has written up this report. Or read a transcript here.
New CEO for Ross/Michigan's Executive Education Programs
4 July 2008
Melanie Barnett has been promoted to Chief Executive of Michigan University's Ross School of Business's Executive Education programs. Barnett has been director of the exec-ed programs building up the business; her new role comes after the school searched nationwide for the position and will enable her to grow the exec-ed programs globally.
Hyderabad Gains Second Business School
4 July 2008
The Indian city of Hyderabad, home to the well-respected Indian School of Business (ISB), is to be the home of the Asia Graduate School of Business as well. Asia GSB's academic partners are Ohio University's Fisher College of Business and Tianjin Polytechnic Universit, China. For more information see www.asiagsb.ac.in .
Royal Bank of Scotland Plans Premier Scottish Business School
24 June 2008
THE Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has submitted plans for a business school next to its headquarters at Gogar Park. The bank is expected to invest more than £30 million in the project it is developing with American Ivy League college Harvard on the outskirts of the Capital. The new centre aims to rival international business schools such as Harvard, Insead in Paris, IMD in Switzerland and leading British schools like the London Business School. More...
Hong Kong Base for LBS and Columbia's EMBA-Global
23 June 2008
EMBA-Global, the top-ranked partnership programme between Columbia Business School and London Business School, is expanding to Asia. London Business School and Columbia Business School are launching EMBA-Global Asia in partnership with The University of Hong Kong. The programme has been designed specifically for globally-focused executives and managers, primarily based in Asia, who seek to deepen their understanding of both Western and Eastern business perspectives and who are passionate about the opportunities offered by Asia’s rapid economic development. More...
CCL Supports Non-Profit Leadership Program
23 June 2008
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has joined with the Center for Creative Leadership to launch a US-wide program to train the next generation of nonprofit leaders. The Ladder to Leadership program aims to boost the skills and capabilities of early- to mid-level professionals working in health and health-related organizations in nine U.S. communities so they will be well-poised to become executives as the current the generation of nonprofit leaders begins to retire. Over the next four years, 270 fellows - 30 in each community - will be selected to participate in the 16-month training. More...
Henley Management College Launch New Leadership Program
23 June 2008
Henley Management College have recently disclosed the details of their new program, Mastering Leadership. The program, which will have its pilot run in mid-July, with further dates in March and December of 2009, is appropriate for highly experienced and senior leaders with a minimum of eight years’ experience in challenging leadership and business management roles. More...
Leaders All At Sea - A Summer School?
20 June 2008
The Center of Creative Leadership (CCL) has teamed up with a leading US sailing academy, Offshore Sailing School, which is located in Florida, the Caribbean, Chesapeake Bay and near NYC, to provide executives and senior managers custom programs to build their leadership and teamwork skills through intense sailing instruction embedded in an assessment-rich interactive experience. More...
Carlson School Appoints New Assistant Dean for Executive Education
20 June 2008
Dr. Mark Kizilos recently assumed duties as the Carlson School of Management’s Assistant Dean for Executive Education. In his new position, Kizilos will lead the school’s Executive Education function, including its Open Enrollment and Custom Programs, which are designed and taught by Carlson School faculty and business professionals from across the country. Previously he was Vice President of Talent Management and Director of Executive Development t the Thomson Corporation, now Thomson Reuters, and led Thomson University.
Dean's Roundtable Held at CEIBS
15 June 2008
A deans' roundtable titled "The Future of Business Management Education in China and Around the World" was held at the China Europe International Business School Shanghai campus recently. More...
Olin Business School Links with IIM-Calcutta
6 June 2008
Olin Business School at the Washington University of St Louis (WUSL) has announced the creation of a partnership with the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, designed to advance research, teaching and cultural understanding. More...
New Direct Marketing Academy Launched in Brussels
6 June 2008
1990's Direct Marketing guru, Drayton Bird, is Dean of a newschool for direct and interactive marketing located in Brussels. The European Academy of Direct and Interactive Marketing - EADIM, is Bird's brainchild and has been created in collaboration with FEDMA (the Federation of European Direct and Interactive Marketing) . The Academy, although based in Brussels, is looking to the emerging economies of eastern Europe to be its main marketplace. More...
Columbia Business School Runs Value Investing Program in Germany
30 May 2008
Columbia Business School, the academic home of Value Investing (in contrast to Chicago's focus on Portfolio theory) is taking its Value Investing program to Europe for the first time. Prof Bruce Greenwald, Director of Columbia's Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing will be co-leading a two-day program for executives to hone their professional and personal Value Investing expertise with Max Otte, Professor of Finance, FH Worms University of Applied Sciences and Executive Director, Center for Value Investing. The program will run on 15 & 16 June in Munich. For further info see Columbia's website.
Indian School of Business Teams Up with Citi Group and IBM India
26 May 2008
Citi Foundation has dedicated $ 1.5 million research grant to Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF), at the Indian School of Business (ISB). The grant will be dispersed over a period of three years. ISB has also recently partnered with IBM India for an Open Collaborative Research (OCR) which targets at research on improving the efficiency of the services sector. More...
Brunel Business School Launches Executive Development Programs
26 May 2008
Brunel Business School has appointed Prof Ashley Braganza as Director of Executive Development and Professor of Organisational Transformation to develop the School's first executive development programmes. More...
INSEAD and Duke CE Partner for Dubai Government Leaders Program
20 May 2008
The second cycle of the Government Leaders Programme has been launched by the Mohammed bin Rashid Programme for Leadership Development. With the ultimate aim of grooming government leaders whose primary duties include implementing the Dubai Strategic Plan 2015, the Government Leaders Programme was developed in collaboration with Insead business school and Duke Corporate Education. More...
Thunderbird partners with Mideast school
20 May 2008
Thunderbird School of Global Management continues to expand its global-learning network through partnerships with top business schools around the world, including its first partnership in the Middle East with Zayed University in United Arab Emirates. More...
Association of African Business Schools Launches Faculty Training Program
20 May 2008
The fourth Africa-wide workshop for African management and business school faculty focused on participant-centered and practice-based teaching methods is took place recently at USIU in Nairobi. The workshop is one of several initiatives through which the Association of African Business Schools (AABS) promotes excellence in business and management education in Africa by supporting graduate business schools through capacity building, collaboration and quality improvement. More...
Wharton's Aresty Institute Gains New Executive Director
13 May 2008
The Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has a new executive director to oversee daily operations. Judy McHugh, formerly Wharton's senior director of customized programs, was named to her new position recently by Tom Colligan, vice dean of executive education at the school. More...
FT Executive Education Rankings 2008
12 May 2008
The Financial Times have published their annual survey of executive education provision by business schools. The FT Exec-Ed rankings are the most respected of the handful of executive education rankings. They appear as two lists, open-enrolment and custom programs. This year sees no change at the very top of either list - Harvard is still No 1 in Open Enrolment and Duke CE in Custom provision. The Open rank, in fact, carries few surprises - the only two new entrants are CEIBS which appears at 20 and Oxford Said at 41. The Custom rank is only slightly more exciting - Wisconsin-Madison jumps from 29th to 15th place while some have fallen, Stanford which was at 4th in 2006 now finds itself at 33rd.
These Rankings have a tendency to idiosyncracy - the MBA ranks are more useful as they are essentially comparing like with like - but some may question how useful a ranking of these more diverse and specialist programs can really be.
Leadership Skills Tested
10 May 2008
The British government's Department for Trade and Industry has created an online leadership test, formulated in association with UK leadership development company, Caret. The assessment measures participant's leadership approach and styles by making you select preferences between two leadership statements (which are not necessarily obviously linked or antipathetic). Participants are given immediate feedback ontheir results. Go to www.inspiredleadership.org.uk to take the assessment.
HCI and DDI Survey Executive Global Development Practices
10 May 2008
HCI, Human Capital Insitute, based in Vermont, USA and DDI, the leadership and talent consultancy, are collaborating with an online survey of how multi-national organisations are structuring their global executvie development programs. Click here to start the survey (you are required to register to access the survey and results).
EDHEC Opens its PhD Program to Finance Executives
6 May 2008
EDHEC Business School and the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre have announced that they will open their new three-year doctoral programme to finance executives from September 2009.
The EDHEC PhD in Finance is designed for professionals whose aim is to gain and maintain an in-depth understanding of finance as well as the ability to initiate and carry through research projects that will yield original insights and lead to innovative approaches and offerings. More...
Accenture Launches Management Academy at ISB, Hyderabad, India
6 May 2008
Accenture and the Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) have launched Accenture Management Development Academy (AMDA), an online, classroom and on-the-job training programme designed to develop and nurture leaders from Accenture's mid-level management in India.
AMDA will offer 18-24-month programs for the first three levels of the Accenture's middle management in India; team lead, associate manager and manager. ISB's Centre for Executive Education and the Centre for IT and Networked Economies (CITNE) have partnered Accenture to develop the curriculum for the academy. The curriculum for each programme covers strategic and tactical aspects of management and has been designed to enable Accenture employees to develop a strong foundation in key delivery management skills as they work on career advancement. |
Premier Exec-ed Programs Come To Saudia Arabia Through Leading Concepts
6 May 2008
Leading Concepts, the Dubai based executive education specialists that provide programs originated by leading US business schools, has announced a new partnership agreement with Al Yamamah College in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Leading Concepts and Al Yamamah will initially be offering programs in Essentials of Leadership (Center for Creative Leadership), planned for 2 to 4 June, and the Human Resource Executive Programme (Michigan Ross School of Business) from 16 to 18 June.
Finance Institutions Fail to Turn to Business Schools to Learn Lessons from Credit Crisis
24 April 2008
Initial findings from research conducted by IEDP.info with 20 leading executive education providers suggests that they have not seen any significant change in demand from international banks and financial institutionsin the wake of the onset of the credit crisis last summer. Only a couple of very focussed programs on complex financial instruments offered by specialist providers had seen any up-tick in participants. While leadership programs generally were better subscribed than this time last year this was not driven by financial institutions. Corporate governance programs were largely unchanged. We shall be publishing more results on this shortly.
Oxford Saïd Creates International Advisory Board for Executive Education
24 April 2008
Oxford Saïd has set-up an advisory board to guide the development of its executive education offering. The board will be chaired by Hugh Crisp, former CEO of international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He is supported by 29 other experienced business leaders from a broad range of commercial sectors and experience. More...
New Finance for Executives Program Launched at Oxford Saïd
24 April 2008
Next week sees the latest version of a Finance for Executives program launched. This core subject offered by many business schools (the IEDP database has 12 such programs) tackles the disconnect between senior functional managers and the finance department. Despite many senior executives having an MBA under their belts these days there still seems to be a communication and business process gap between the non-finance management and those that control the purse-strings. For more information on Said's version see here.
Harvard Appoints New Investment Chief
28th March 2008
Harvard Management Company, (HMC), has appointed Jane Mendillo as its Chief Investment Officer to oversee the management of the university's $35 billion endowment fund. Mendillo's return to Harvard (she was VP of External Investment until she moved Wellesley College in 2002)comes after a long search to replace Mohamed El Erian, who left the post after only two years in summer 2007. Harvard's endowment fund is the world's largest university fund being nearly 50% larger than the second largest, Yale's ($22.5 bn) and double the third largest, Stanford's ($17.2 bn).
New Head of India Research Center for Harvard
24th March 2008
Harvard's India Research Center in Mumbai has appointed Ms Anjali Raina as its Executive Director."She will focus on building and maintaining relationships with senior business leaders in the region to facilitate the expanding work of the Center in research, educational programs and alumni endeavours" said Krishna Palepu, the Senior Associate Dean for International Development at HBS."
Larry Wynant Appointed Acting Dean of Ivey
19th March 2008
Larry Wynant, who has held a variety of senior roles at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, has been appointed the Acting Dean there for the last six months of this year. Wynant has been in charge of the MBA programs, Executive Education and Ivey's expansion into Asia including Director of their Hong Kong campus between 1999 - 2003.
Stanford Launches Program Just for Women
13 March 2008
Stanford GSB is to offer a fice-day executive leadership programdesigned exclusively for women. It will cover the strategies and skills women need to managem their careers and maximise their professional and personal goals. It will run in May this year for the first time. More...
Top Schools Join Goldman Sachs for 10,000 Women
12 March 2008
Goldman Sachs launched an initiativeon 5th March to improve the entrepreneurial and managerial skills of women in developing economies and will provde $100 million over the next five years to fund it. Called "10,000 Women"it will increase the number of underserved women receiving a business and management education and improve the quality and capacity of business and management education around the world. Currently seven US and one UK business schools/universities will team up with universities in eight different developing nations to provide programs, mentoring, research and partnerships for the project. More...
Oxford AMP to Run in Saudi Arabia
11 March 2008
The Oxford Advanced Management Programme has been commissioned by a leading development company based in Saudi Arabia, Rakisa Holding, to deliver the programme to a group of both public and private sector executives in the country. This is the first programme that the School has run in the Kingdom. More...
also read more at the Exec-Ed Zone blog on this story.
New Article: From Organic Growth to Executive Training Ground
7 March 2008
The Batten Institute at Darden has conducted its "Leading Organic Growth" research, a multiphase, in-depth field study that began over two years ago. Its remit was guided by feedback from corporate clients that indicated they were eager to learn more about this area - and the results are now being fed into a new executive education program on Innovative Growth. Read more about the process here...
Deutsche Bank and INSEAD Launch the Deutsche Knowledge Institute in Singapore
5 March 2008
Deutsche Bank and INSEAD have launched the start of an innovative partnership – known as the Deutsche Knowledge Institute – which sees both organisations working together to create a sustainable program of development for Deutsche Bank employees in Asia Pacifi. More...
Dean News
4 March 2008
Aud Jebsen, widow of the successful shipping entrepreneur Kristian Gerhard Jebsen, has established a professorship in her late husband’s name. The professorship will be held by Dr. Peter Lorange, IMD’s outgoing President. After stepping down as President on April 1, 2008, Dr Lorange.will remain at IMD and continue teaching, conducting research and writing books as the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Professor of International Shipping.
ESADE Business school has appointed Alfonso Sauquet to the post of Dean for the next four years. Prof Sauquet up to now has been Vice-Dean of Research and Knowledge at the school.
Proposal to Overhaul Indian Higher Education Framework
3 March 2008
FICCI, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, has proposed called for the dissolution of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and setting up a single regulatory authority, independent of government , as recommended by the National Knowledge Commission (NKC). More...
INSEAD Launches It's Open Enrolment Programs in Abu Dhabi
2 March 2008
Following its inauguration last September, the INSEAD Centre for Executive Education and Research in Abu Dhabi has launched its first series of open-enrolment programmes. These programmes will cover key management topics on leadership, people and performance management, and finance, and are designed to cultivate the new generation of regional business leaders. More...
Haas Launches Asia Business Center
25 February 2008
The Haas School is launching a new center at its Berkeley campus focused on significantly increasing its leadership training for Asian business managers and expanding its research collaborations with Asian universities. More...
New Research: Coaching in Organisations
24 February 2008
A report from the Ashridge Centre for Coaching on behalf of the CIPD that summarises their initial findings into coaching provision in UK organisations. The report outlines the key challenges and themes and highlights two case studies at M & G Securities and Orange Telecom. Read the article...
New Article: Leadership Failure
20 February 2008
A question and answer session with the Director of CCL Europe, Rudi Plettinx on the increasing disconnect between senior executives and their very specialised employees. This piece provides a useful follow-on from Jacques Pezier's article published in December. Read the article...
CCL Helps to "Develop the Company of Tomorrow - Today"
19 February 2008
The Globally Responsible Learning Initiative (GRLI), a joint project between the UN Global Compact and EFMD, is launching a new program to advance corporate global responsibility. CCL is one of four main partners behind “Developing the Company of Tomorrow – Today.” This action-learning program offers five to ten companies globally the chance to develop and implement innovative strategies that advance their business interests while also respecting natural and human resources. More...
Financial Times MBA Rankings 2008
28 January 2008
The Financial Times has released their MBA rankings for 2008. Wharton retains the top slot, but London Business School moves from last year's 5th to 2nd place. The big movers are from Asia though. CEIBS consolidates its 11th place but HKUST jumps from unranked to 17th (it was 47 in 2006); and the Indian Business School appears for its first time, at 20th. For the full rankings visit: Ft.com
India Business Centre to Open at Oxford Saïd
21 January 2008
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Dr John Hood announced the establishment of the Oxford University India Business Centre and a new Chair in Indian business studies, during a visit to New Delhi. The Centre, which will be located at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, will address major business issues affecting India, through collaborative research between academics in Oxford, India and elsewhere. More...
US Training and Development Budgets Still Grow
15 January 2008
Novations, the professional services firm, has produced its annual survey of US corporations budget intentions for training and development in the coming year. Once again it shows the top two growth sectors are Leadership/Executive Development and Supervisory/Management Skills, although the order was reversed from last year. Diversity training is the big riser though. More...
Henley and Reading Business School to Merge.
14 January 2008
Henley Management Centre and Reading University have announced an agreement in principle to merge. Henley, a leading UK provider of executive education and Reading, a research-based business school catering largely to under-graduate education believe their strengths are complementary. Reading is also home to ICMA, the capital markets research centre. More...
Qatargas takes Leadership Lessons from Tepper
4 January 2008
Qatargas, the Qatari based gas company owned by Qatar Petroleum and a number of major international oil companies, has partnered with Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business to offer seven exec-ed modules to its senior executives. The programs will run at both Tepper's US and Qatar campuses. More...
